Andrew Schwartz Crane, Cma Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Strategic Performance Management: Lead the definition and management of company performance metrics, ensuring alignment with overarching business goals. Collaborate with the CEO and parent company (Blue Cypress) to.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee seamless service delivery and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Identify and mitigate operational risks. Implement a Project Management Office (PMO) to streamline project.
• Financial Leadership: Oversee invoicing, revenue recognition and financial reporting. Monitor company finances to optimize cash flow and sustain financial health. Implement strategic expense reduction and cost control.
• Team Leadership and Development: Oversee all aspects of personnel management, encompassing team organization, hiring processes, terminations, and professional development. Cultivate a collaborative and motivating.
• Automated Data Solutions: Implement processes upon a custom Common Data Platform built upon Microsoft SQL Server and Power Automate. Develop integrations in Asana, FreshDesk, HubSpot, and Microsoft Teams to streamline.
• Sales and Business Development: Design and launch new technology service lines. Lead contract negotiations and successfully close sales deals to drive revenue growth. Act as a key representative of Brightfind at.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Led the Blue Cypress senior leadership team in the establishment, execution and monitoring of strategic initiatives.
• Spearheaded annual planning, budgeting and monthly business review activities across the portfolio of companies.
• Served as a strategic advisor and advocate to senior leadership teams of both startup and established growth-minded companies.
• Collaborated with CFO and CRO to drive continuous improvements in accounting and revenue operations processes.
• Managed an offshore development team in the implementation and maintenance of a custom-built data analytics platform and associated integrations.
• Built a centralized IT function from the ground-up, offering help desk, software support and training, security, and technology roadmap.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Following the acquisition of my company, Future Value Consulting (FVC) in 2018, integrated FVC’s end-to-end project methodology into PerByte’s business model, championing a company infrastructure and culture prepared.
• Led client relationship building at the strategic level while managing the promotion and sales of PerByte’s suite of association technology products and services.
• Conducted client needs analysis workshops, solution advisory engagements, and training classes for end users, developers and accountants.
• Served as project lead for enterprise-level system initiatives, including financial system integrations and workflow automation, advanced accounting reports, management dashboards, and data analysis and management.
• Advised and assisted clients with GL analysis, reconciliations, revenue recognition, quote-to-cash process improvements and workflow design.
• Developed applications, system configurations and advanced reports using T-SQL, Crystal Reports and.NET.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Founded Future Value Consulting (FVC) as Aptify's first U.S.-based Association Management System (AMS) implementation partner, opening a physical office and hired remote employees, working with clients across North.
• Instilled a culture that fostered team excellence, earning FVC a reputation as a trusted advisor, delivering innovative technology solutions following a reliable, repeatable methodology.
• Developed practical, scalable models for resource allocation, variance analysis, pipeline management and project delivery with SMART KPIs.
• Set the overall strategic direction while overseeing financial management, business development, and operations.
• Remained active in all aspects of client work (analysis and design, data conversion,.NET and T-SQL development, training, etc.), but delegated responsibilities as FVC’s talented team of developers, analysts and project.
• Participated as speaker or facilitator at industry conferences, especially in the areas of accounting automation and reporting.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed enterprise-level AMS implementations in the US and Canada.
• Supervised Consulting staff, including career development, performance budgeting and monitoring, policy creation and project oversight.
• Served as lead business analyst, conduct requirements confirmation meetings and produce design documentation and SOWs.
• Partner with Account Executives on pre-sales activities, including preparing RFP responses, conducting demos and representing Professional Services.
• Led data conversions, including data extraction, cleansing, mapping and validation.
• Extended system functionality through software configurations and workflow automation using VB.NET, SQL Server, and Crystal Reports.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed and implemented a client/server MS Access compensation management system for INTELSAT.
• Designed and developed a multi-plan pension administration system for the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) using Excel, Word, Access and VBA.
• Built defined-benefit and cash balance pension calculator DLLs in C++ and Delphi.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Contributed to the design, implementation and maintenance a three-tier client/server pension administration system for IBM.
• Led the development of defined benefit and cash balance pension calculation modules using C/C++, SQL Server and Visual Basic.
• Designed and managed the development of an automated pension calculation regression-testing system.

B.A., Computer Science, Music, French

Activities and Societies: Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra

C.S.C., Accounting

Over 30 credits of accounting coursework covering principles, intermediate, advanced, managerial, not-for-profit and government (fund).

Graduate Coursework, Management Information Systems